Resonant magnetic perturbations of edge-plasmas in toroidal confinement devices

TE Evans - Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Controlling the boundary layer in fusion-grade, high-performance, plasma discharges is
essential for the successful development of toroidal magnetic confinement power generating …

Edge-localized-modes in tokamaks

AW Leonard - Physics of Plasmas, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
Edge-localized-modes (ELMs) are a ubiquitous feature of H-mode in tokamaks. When
gradients in the H-mode transport barrier grow to exceed the MHD stability limit the ELM …

ELM control with RMP: plasma response models and the role of edge peeling response

Y Liu, CJ Ham, A Kirk, L Li, A Loarte… - Plasma Physics and …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Resonant magnetic perturbations (RMP) have extensively been demonstrated as a
plausible technique for mitigating or suppressing large edge localized modes (ELMs) …

Advances in the physics understanding of ELM suppression using resonant magnetic perturbations in DIII-D

MR Wade, R Nazikian, JS deGrassie, TE Evans… - Nuclear …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent experiments on DIII-D have increased confidence in the ability to suppress edge-
localized modes (ELMs) using edge-resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) in ITER …

3D vacuum magnetic field modelling of the ITER ELM control coil during standard operating scenarios

TE Evans, DM Orlov, A Wingen, W Wu, A Loarte… - Nuclear …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract In-vessel, non-axisymmetric, control coils have proven to be an important option for
mitigating and suppressing edge-localized modes (ELMs) in high performance operating …

Comparisons of linear and nonlinear plasma response models for non-axisymmetric perturbations

AD Turnbull, NM Ferraro, VA Izzo, EA Lazarus… - Physics of …, 2013 - pubs.aip.org
With the installation of non-axisymmetric coil systems on major tokamaks for the purpose of
studying the prospects of ELM-free operation, understanding the plasma response to the …

Mechanism of edge localized mode mitigation by resonant magnetic perturbations

M Becoulet, F Orain, GTA Huijsmans, S Pamela… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
A possible mechanism of edge localized modes (ELMs) mitigation by resonant magnetic
perturbations (RMPs) is proposed based on the results of nonlinear resistive …

Gyrokinetic study of collisional resonant magnetic perturbation (RMP)-driven plasma density and heat transport in tokamak edge plasma using a …

R Hager, CS Chang, NM Ferraro, R Nazikian - Nuclear fusion, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
The total-f gyrokinetic particle-in-cell code XGC is applied to study various aspects of
collisional transport in the tokamak edge pedestal in the presence of resonant magnetic …

Influence of pedestal pressure on plasma response to resonant magnetic perturbation field

X Yang, J Yuan, Y Liu, X He, Y He, G Xia… - The European Physical …, 2025 - Springer
A systematic numerical investigation is carried out to understand the effect of variation of the
equilibrium pressure pedestal structure on the H-mode plasma response to the applied …

[HTML][HTML] Gyrokinetic understanding of the edge pedestal transport driven by resonant magnetic perturbations in a realistic divertor geometry

R Hager, CS Chang, NM Ferraro, R Nazikian - Physics of Plasmas, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Self-consistent simulations of neoclassical and electrostatic turbulent transport in a DIII-D H-
mode edge plasma under resonant magnetic perturbations (RMPs) have been performed …